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B. M. MCCLELLAND.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 11|*l 1919 1,396,766. Patented Nov. 15, 1921.

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UNIT-ED STATES BERTHAM. ICCLELLAND, 0F WALTON, NEW YORK.

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To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTHA M. MCCLEL- LAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Walton, in the county of Delaware and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Dolls, of which the following 1s a specification.

This invention relates to dolls, and more particularly to rag dolls.

The object of the invention is to provide a double or reversible rac' doll so constructed that different personalities may be alternately presented by turning the doll end for end and flopping over the skirt.

Another object is to so construct such a doll that the skirt will be of double-faced material, so that when turned in one direction,

a doll dressed in one color will appear and when turned in the other direction will be converted into another doll with another colored dress.

With the foregoing and other 'objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without de arting from the spirit of the invention.

n the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a doll constructed in accordance with this invention with parts broken out and in section, and

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof.

In the embodiment illustrated, a doublebodied doll 1 is shown, the body members 2 and 3 of which are arranged end to end in longitudinal alinement being united as shown at 4 and preferably formed integral with each other, the connection 4 between them, being flexible to permit bending at the waistline.

These body members 2 and 3 may be rstuffed with an suitable material, such as hair, cotton ort e like, and each has a head shown respectively at 5 and 6. The head 5 is preferably made of black material, such as black cambric, and has human features painted on one face thereof, and a bandana handkerchief 7 wound around the head to imitate the head of a Dinah or colored doll.

This body member 2 has arms equipped Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led July 11,

Patented Nov. 15, 1921.

1919. Serial No.'310,145.

with hands 8 and has a dress waist 9 composed of any desired material, with a belt or girdle 10 arranged transversely around the figure at the junction of the two bodies.

A double-faced skirt 11 is shown, one face 12 of which forms a continuation of the dress waist member 9, while the other face 13 forms a continuation of the dress waist 14 lwith which the bodyy 3 is equipped. A belt or girdle l5 of the same color as the facing 13 and waist 14 is arranged around the body 3 outside the waist 14. p

The head 6 of the body member 3 may be decorated in any desired manner, having a white face with human features indicated thereon and here shown rovided with a cap 16, but obviously any other head decoration may be provided.

The facings 12 and 13 of the skirt 11 are preferably secured together at their lower edges by being inturned and stitched as shown at 17.

The'body 3 is also provided with arms 18 having hands 19 as is shown clearly in Fig. 1, this body being here shown concealed by the skirt 11, but obviously when the skirt is reversed, this body will be exposed and the body 2 concealed.

In the use of this doll, the positioning of the skirt 11 as shown in the drawings willk expose the black-faced member 2, the whitefaced member 3 being completely concealed by the skirt 11. This doll may readily bend at the waist line owing to the flexible waist portion 4, so that the doll may sit up if desired or ma be made to bow.

'lhe turmng of the doll end for end and the flopping over of the skirt 11, will expose the white-faced body 3, and conceal the body 2 as will be readily understood. The arms of the two members are flexibly connected withthe body portions to cause them to fall into natural position as shown at the upper portion of Fig. 1 when the body is exposed and held upward or to drop down over the head as shown at the bottom of Fig. 1 when the body is concealed within the skirt.

From the foregoing description, taken in lconnection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made as are within the scope of the claimed invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A (loll composed of two body members arranged in longitudinal -alinement integral with each other, said members being composed of a stuffed casing, the connected portion of said members having the stuffing omitted and the casing connected to form a iexible bending waist line, a head at the free end of each body member, each body member having a dress waist with a skirt portion forming a continuation thereof, said skirt portions being arranged one within the other and secured .together at their upper and lower ends forming a double facing reversible skirt, one face of which is exposed when one body member is in view and the other exposed when the other body member is in view.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BERTHA-M. MCCLELLAND. Vitnesses:

W. G. MOORE, 'J. C. MCCLELLAND. 

